Finland's Famous Education System Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling

• Other Authors: Thrupp, Martin (Editor), Seppänen, Piia (Editor), Kauko, Jaakko (Editor), Kosunen, Sonja (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Nature 2023
• Subjects: Educational strategies & policy; Education; Teacher training; Sociology; Public administration; Finnish Education System; Finnish Policies and Education; Finnish Education; Social Justice and Education; Political Structures and Education; Policy Developments and Education; Social Class and Education; Gender Inequalities and Education; Ethnic Diversity and Education; Urban Studies and Education; Policy Sociology and Education; Finnish Schooling; Bourdieu and Education; Foucault and Education
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This open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a major collection of critical views of the Finnish education system and topics that cohere around social justice concerns. It questions rhetoric, myths, and commonly held assumptions surrounding Finnish schooling. This book draws on the fields of sociology of education, education policy, urban studies, and policy sociology. It makes use of a range of research methodologies including ethnography, case study and discourse analysis, and references the work of relevant theorists, including Bourdieu and Foucault. This book aims to provide a critical, updated and astute analysis of the strengths and challenges of the Finnish education system.